Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them.
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Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
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The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.
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He'd never seen Seinfeld, so he didn't know who Puddy was or anything.
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Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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Peace is only better than war if peace is not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
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I'm very claustrophobic.
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Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.
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The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.
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I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then what is the point of having one?
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I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.
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As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.
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I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.
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Getting comfortable again and being in a vocal booth on the opposite end of the spectrum, when you're normally the one tracking the vocals, is kind of scary.
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People love a show, especially when freaks are involved.
